An elastic ball that bounces on water, the Waboba, flattens like a pancake when it hits the water surface, increasing its lift and propelling it upward. DENVER — A toy ball that skips on water far ...

A Waboba is a ball that bounces on water (water bouncing ball, geddit?). That makes it kind of unusual since a simple experiment will show that many balls do not bounce on water. And that raises an ...

Skipping stones across the water surface can be tricky. So why is it so easy to get such impressive water-skipping performance from an elastic ball? Researchers say they have answers that may reveal a ...

April 14, 2008 It has the consistency of breast implant, a lycra coating and unlike any ball prior to now, it bounces on water. The slight change to one of man’s oldest playthings, offers an entirely ...

Scientists at Utah State University have figured out how to make the perfect skipping stones. The secret was making sure they were made out of a material that had much more give than stone. Inspired ...

POOLER, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - A high school student in the Savannah area recently broke a rather unusual world record. He didn’t just barely beat the previous mark; he absolutely crushed it. 17-year-old ...

First, in my defense I was just making a model based on the data I had. Of course, I am talking about my first super bounce ball post. Just to get you up to speed, I wanted to see how fast you would ...

DENVER — A toy ball that skips on water far easier than the best skipping stone is the inspiration for a line of research that's caught the attention of the U.S. Navy. The Waboba (named for its ...

It takes a perfect flick of the wrist and just the right angle to get a disk-shaped stone to skip across the surface of the water multiple times. So why is it so easy to get such impressive ...